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NARRATOR: Tonight on
The Curse of Oak Island...

RICK:
We're following all the clues

where they lead.

Hey, guys,
come take a look at this.

CORJAN:
(chuckles) Fantastic.

Holy cow.
This is frickin' impressive.

I've never seen anything
like this on the island.

DOUG:
We found this on Oak Island.

EMILIANO:
It's very old.

Probably a thousand years old.

-DOUG: Wow.
-Wow.

ROGER:
We are at the bottom
of the Money Pit shaft.

MARTY:
And very close
to the actual treasure

-of the Money Pit.
-Absolutely amazing.

-MARTY: How about that?
-Wow.

MARTY:
Oh, baby.

NARRATOR:
There is an island
in the North Atlantic

where people
have been looking for

an incredible treasure
for more than 200 years.

So far, they have found
a stone slab

with strange symbols
carved into it...

...man-made workings
that date to medieval times,

and a lead cross
whose origin may be connected

to the Knights Templar.

To date, six men have died

trying to solve the mystery.

And according to legend,
one more will have to die

before the treasure
can be found.

♪ ♪

When this first project
was started...

-Hey, guys.
-Oh!

-Oh, look at you.
-CRAIG: Charles.

Got your Sunday
going-to-meeting clothes on.

I got my Sunday
go-to-meeting clothes on, yeah.

It's a pretty exciting day.

NARRATOR: For brothers
Rick and Marty Lagina,

their partner Craig Tester
and their entire team,

the dawn of another day
on Oak Island

brings renewed anticipation

for a major
breakthrough discovery

that could help solve
a 228-year-old mystery.

-This is a dream, isn't it?
-CHARLES: It's a dream,

and I want to thank you both,
a-and Rick,

for the opportunity
for allowing me to do this.

Roger, is he gonna,
you know, is he gonna

-meet the grade here?
Can he do this?
-Well, I don't know.

But yeah, I-I think
he'll be able to cut it.

(laughs)
Absolutely.

-How deep are we?
-So, right now,

we finally found
the bottom of the shaft.

The bottom of our shaft
is at 82 feet,

just a little over 82 feet,
so there is no more timber.

NARRATOR:
Although the bitter
North Atlantic winter

is fast approaching,
the reconstruction

of the Garden Shaft
in the Money Pit area

is nearing completion, meaning
that a legendary treasure

people have been searching for
since 1795

may soon be within their reach.

MARTY:
Charles, you're going
below ground

on Oak Island, man.

Yeah, I know.
It's a pretty select group.

Yeah. Well, I want to know if
your, uh, Spidey-sense tingles

-when you get down there.
-If I pick up any gold sig...

-Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
-...signals?

You'd be the first to know.

Okay. All right.
Let's get this show on the road.

Yeah. We'll go to the camera
and keep an eye on them.

NARRATOR:
It has been five long months
since representatives

from Dumas Contracting Limited
began rebuilding

this 82-foot-deep
dilapidated feature,

which, thanks
to scientific testing

of wood and water samples,

has proven to contain
high-trace evidence of gold.

However, it also appears
to be sitting above a tunnel

some 95 feet deep
running due west

toward the so-called Baby Blob,
where water testing

in numerous boreholes
has suggested

that the fabled Money Pit
treasure vault could be located.

CHARLES:
Wow.

When Rick asked
members of the team

who wanted to actually
go underground,

I think my hand was probably
the first one that went up.

To me, it's very personal
to go down there.

And that's the whole idea
of us being here,

to find this thing,
not only for us,

but for everybody
that came before us.

-Is this him?
-Yeah. That's them.

-CRAIG: That was quick.
-MARTY: Yeah.

NARRATOR:
Now, after completing

specialized safety training,
Charles Barkhouse is inspecting

the nearly completed
bottom section, or set,

of the structure, in order
to help the team determine

how the Garden Shaft
may be related

to the possible treasure tunnel
beneath it.

CHARLES:
Very cool. (laughs)

Wow.

Holy God.

Wow.

(exhales)

RODNEY:
This timber you see
right here, that's...

-that's the last original piece.
-That right down there?

Yeah. You got noth--
no more timber below that.

-CHARLES: No more
timber below that?
-No.

And this is the corner
that was sinking all along.

-CHARLES: Right, yeah,
I see that. Yeah, you can...
-You can see the angle

-right here.
-You could-- Yeah.

CHARLES:
Wow.

(over video): I'm curious
what made this corner sink.

You know? There is something
beyond this corner.

There is a tunnel or something
that caused this corner to sink.

The question is why was
so much activity in this area

that we know nothing about?

The good thing is,
we can get down there,

and there is a ton of things
that can be done from this.

Well, we can drill
from the bottom, right?

Yeah. So, we will
do some probe drilling,

to see if we can try
and intercept this tunnel.

MARTY:
Dumas is about to begin
probe drilling.

I don't know exactly
what to expect, but I'm hoping

for treasure itself.

Maybe, uh, find this tunnel
that could be

a tunnel to an offset chamber.

This is unexplored ground
for us,

and it should be interesting.

So, when do we start drilling?

As soon as we get this set in.

This side here is not done.

MARTY (over radio):
Hey, Charles.
Surface to Charles.

Do you read me?

-(radio beeps)
-Go ahead, Marty.

Okay, you know what I'm gonna
say. Where's the gold?

Uh, I wish I could, Marty.

I wish I could tell you where
it is, but it-- I'll tell you,

it's-it's pretty amazing
down here.

Well, Charles,

here's the deal:
I want to get down there,

and I will,
in the next couple days.

And-and, but-but really,
let's face it,

the, uh, utility of this thing
has yet to be proven.

But I'm hopeful that it will be.

Me, too, Marty. It's time.

All right. Come on up.

You can't live down there.

Okay, coming up.

MARTY:
I got to do my training, um,
but couple days,

-I'm gonna be down there.
-ROGER: Absolutely.

-I'll be more
than glad to take you down.
-All right, perfect.

That's a-- It's a date.

-It's a date. Exactly. Yeah.
-MARTY: All right.

NARRATOR:
As the reconstruction
of the Garden Shaft

continues in the Money Pit area,

nearly 4,000 miles
to the east, in Rome, Italy...

(Emiliano speaking Italian)

-Buongiorno. Rick.
-Nice to meet you.

NARRATOR: ...Rick Lagina, along
with his nephews Alex and Peter,

Doug Crowell and researcher
Emiliano Sacchetti,

are meeting with numismatist
Umberto Moruzzi.

Do you have a specialty
in the, like, a certain coin

or a certain era?

-Okay.
-RICK: That's really
why we're here,

because we're trying
to understand the story

about Oak Island.

EMILIANO:
Here there's another
amazing underground cave system.

NARRATOR:
For the past week,

Rick and the team have
been visiting ancient sights

to investigate the theory
of the late Zena Halpern,

who believed that between
the 12th and 14th centuries...

RICK:
Wow.

...members of the medieval
Christian order

known as the Knights Templar

transported sacred,
religious treasures from Italy

and other European strongholds
to Oak Island.

-ALEX: Hey, Rick.
-RICK: Hmm?

-Check this out.
-PETER: That's cool.

We have seen this symbol
before, on Oak Island.

-RICK: H+O Stone.
-PETER: Yeah.

NARRATOR:
So far, they have found
numerous Templar carvings

in ancient cave systems

that have also been found
on or near the island.

And incredibly,
one of those sites,

located in the town of Camerano,

features a labyrinth
matching the exact shape

of the 14th-century lead cross
that was unearthed

at Smith's Cove back in 2017.

Well, hopefully today,

there will be
an unraveling of our story.

DOUG:
Yes. We've found

several coins on the island that
seem very out of place to us.

NARRATOR:
Today, the team
has asked Umberto

to examine the Roman half-coin

found earlier this year
on Lot 5,

along with
another metal artifact

that was unearthed on Lot 7,

to see if his findings
might help to further validate

Zena Halpern's
incredible theory.

It could be half a Roman coin
from the fourth century.

Wow.

EMILIANO:
In his opinion,
this could be the original one.

UMBERTO:
Look.

EMILIANO:
They have been
in circulation for centuries.

And we could expect to find this
up to the medieval times.

ALEX:
Wow.

(laughter)

RICK:
How do you explain

a Roman half-coin on Oak Island?

This is one of the earliest
artifacts found on Oak Island.

That's huge.

I don't know
what to make of it quite yet.

Doug, I think...

-next-next one up?
-Yes. Yes.

DOUG:
We have another item.

We're wondering if, uh,
Umberto can have a look at it.

(Umberto speaking Italian)

So, uh, it-it--
that's not a coin.

Uh, it's made out of bronze
and it's very old.

According to Umberto,

uh, probably
a thousand years old.

-ALEX: Wow.
-RICK: Wow.

(speaking Italian)

It's-it's a bit more
than four grams.

(Umberto speaking Italian)

EMILIANO:
He's saying, uh, this could be

a monetary weight.

Mm-hmm.

(speaking Italian)

EMILIANO:
Probably, that piece of bronze

was used, uh, to make comparison
between real coins.

Using the weight.

Mm-hmm.

NARRATOR:
From the times of Ancient Rome

up through the medieval period
across Europe,

the value of silver
and gold coins

were determined by their weight.

In order to prevent
counterfeiting,

merchants would use
trade weights

made of non-precious metals

as a standard for ensuring
the true value of coins.

If this is indeed
around a thousand years old,

why the need for trade weights
on Oak Island?

Don't know, yet.

NARRATOR:
If Umberto Moruzzi is correct

that this trade weight
could date back

approximately 1,000 years,
could it be a clue

that supports
Zena Halpern's belief

that members
of the Templar order

first visited Oak Island
in the late 12th century?

RICK:
The very word "trade" means

some sort
of commercial activity,

or some sort of activity
associated with money.

Um...

Well, money, generally
in everyone's mind,

is associated with "treasure."

But it's the date he puts on it,
a thousand years old.

Well, it rounds, again--
we're back into the 1200s.

Perhaps, uh, an association
with a-a Templar treasure.

EMILIANO:
It matches the weight
of a golden

-Byzantine coin.
-DOUG: Oh, yes.

Wow.

(Umberto speaking Italian)

And there's, uh, a Christ on it.

RICK:
Wow.

He likes to think that
that piece of bronze

was used as a monetary weight
for that very coin.

Wow.

I always thought
it was a wonderful story.

-ALEX: Mm-hmm.
-But nothing like this.

Right? All of these outliers,

all of this new information

that comes to light
and you've just...

continually puzzled
by it, right?

Given legitimate artifacts
from literally millennia ago.

-Mm-hmm.
-So, I thank you for that,

because that impresses
upon all of us

the importance
of finds like this.

I'm very hopeful
as we look forward.

-UMBERTO: Grazie.
-RICK: Prego.

(bucket thuds)

NARRATOR:
Back on Oak Island...

-How's it going, Laird?
-Hey, Jack.

I see a lot of test pits
in this area.

Yeah.

NARRATOR:
...Jack Begley arrives on Lot 5,

located on the western side
of the island,

where archaeologist Laird Niven

continues his meticulous
excavation

of a mysterious
circular stone feature.

JACK:
There's been a lot of work done
around here lately.

LAIRD: (chuckles)
Yeah, there's a lot to do.

Our first bit was to examine

what we thought
was the exterior.

But then we found
that there's this big circle

of stones around it.

NARRATOR:
While the purpose
of the stone-covered depression

remains unknown,

the fact that it has
a 13-foot diameter,

matching that
of the original Money Pit

when it was discovered in 1795,

and is located in the area
where the Roman coin

and barter token were found,

the team suspects
it may be a critical clue

that could help solve
the Oak Island mystery.

You can see rocks
coming up here,

so-- well below
these placed rocks.

-JACK: Yeah. Yeah.
-Right?

The occupation could be...

I mean, we're finding artifacts
from the 1750s.

Wow.

Is there any chance
that the top feature

was built at a later date
than the rocks that are lower?

Oh, absolutely.
Yeah, this was at a later date.

Yeah, and there could be

an even earlier component
under that.

Oh. So, this could be

a really old stone feature
that was then rebuilt and...

-Yeah.
-...and rock-lined
back in the 1700s.

LAIRD:
That's what we're hoping for.

-Hey, Laird.
-Hey, Marty.

Talk to me. What have you found?

Why don't you come down
and I'll show you?

-Well, I can be
an archeologist then, right?
-Yep.

All right. What you got?

Well, we have
a big jumble of rocks.

-MARTY: I see that.
-And it's very
deliberately built.

So, what is this?

Well, so, we're speculating now

if this was once filled,
with rocks.

-MARTY: The whole thing?
-The whole thing.

And then at some point,
somebody decided

to take some of these rocks out
and create this thing around it.

I'd be keenly interested in any
artifacts you find down there.

LAIRD:
Yeah, We're getting artifacts
from 1750 up top.

-Mm-hmm.
-The hope is that, down below,

we'll find an earl--
an even earlier component.

That would be great.
That would be exciting.

The round feature on Lot 5
can turn out to be significant

because it's so odd.

How can you not be

extremely interested
into what exactly it is?

It's a thing not found elsewhere
on Nova Scotia on Oak Island.

It could be very meaningful.
We need to explore it.

Well, there are
secrets here yet, Laird.

But I think
you're gonna find them.

LAIRD:
I hope so.

All right, you guys carry on.

-I'm moving to other parts.
-All right.

-See you later.
-See you, Marty.

NARRATOR:
As Laird and Jack continue

their investigation on Lot 5...

-CRAIG: Okay, well,
let's take her deeper.
-BILLY: Yeah.

NARRATOR: ...Craig Tester,
Billy Gerhardt, Steve Guptill

and Gary Drayton
are conducting an excavation

in the middle
of the triangle-shaped swamp.

CRAIG:
Whoa. The water's sure
starting to come in

that little spot right there.

GARY:
We got a gusher now. Wow.

-That's some water, isn't it?
-Yeah.

NARRATOR:
After confirming the discovery
of a stone ramp one week ago,

which connects
the 800-year-old paved area

with a stone pathway
running along

the eastern border
of the swamp...

CRAIG:
Let's keep going, see
what the base of it looks like.

BILLY:
Yeah.

NARRATOR:
...the Oak Island team

is now hoping to unearth

a large, potentially
metallic object

that was detected
during a magnetometer survey

performed earlier this year.

We're awful deep.

But the water came in so fast
we couldn't really see it.

He's gonna try to get
the water out so we can see.

All rocks now.

It's deep though, for that, eh?

CRAIG:
Yeah, you can definitely see

-the rocks on that side.
-Yeah.

-BILLY: Big rocks
and little rocks.
-GARY: Yep.

These rocks look like
they're from the paved area.

CRAIG:
Good.

STEVE:
Oh, wow.

That's very much
paved area type of rocks.

NARRATOR: While searching
for a metallic object,

possibly buried more than
ten feet deep in the center

of the triangle-shaped
swamp...

CRAIG:
Grab one more.

NARRATOR: ...Craig Tester
and other members

of the Oak Island team
have unearthed

what they believe
could be a new section

of the massive 800-year-old
stone-paved feature.

STEVE:
That's a lot of rock at 11 feet.

CRAIG:
Why don't you, uh,

get a little more water
out of there,

-we'll take another good look.
-BILLY: Okay.

CRAIG:
Maybe this was more
of the paved area in the swamp,

but we're not quite sure
where it's going

or where it's coming from.

But that's what we're here for.

We're here to-to find out
what actually was going on.

So, what do we got
going here now, guys?

What mystery do we have today?

Yeah, the question is,
is it a paved area or not?

Oh, yeah.

CRAIG:
You can see the rocks
down there, like it's...

-MARTY: Oh, yeah.
Very similar, isn't it?
-Yep.

MARTY:
This could be sort of, uh,

adjunct to the paved area.

We already knew we had
the paved area in the swamp,

we have the path, now we
have a ramp connecting 'em.

The big question is why?

It must have been done
for some reason.

What I'm thinking is, uh,
Dr. Spooner's coming tomorrow.

Have him take a look at whether
it's glacial or man-made.

For today, I think we're good.

MARTY:
Yet another mystery
on Oak Island.

NARRATOR:
The following morning...

IAN:
Hey, Billy.

Hey.

CRAIG:
You'll see the rock layer

we found.

NARRATOR:
...Craig Tester accompanies

geoscientist Dr. Ian Spooner
to the swamp

in order to have him inspect
the freshly unearthed

stone-paved feature.

CRAIG:
So, I wanted you

to come look at it, you know,

make sure you're in agreement
that it is man-made.

IAN:
Mm-hmm. You know
what's really important,

is we dug out there
and we did not find

-that rock layer.
-Yeah.

IAN:
That rock layer,
we have it in the paved area,

and it stops right there.

-CRAIG: Yes.
-And it's-it's not
over there at all.

Like, if it's a glacial feature,
you expect it to continue.

There's some kind
of human influence.

NARRATOR:
While searching in the swamp
over the past several years,

the team has found
numerous pieces

of ancient sailing vessels

as well as parts
of cargo barrels,

which have been estimated
to date back 600 years or more.

Could Dr. Spooner be correct

that the paved area
in the center of the swamp

and the stone ramp
at its eastern edge

were used many centuries ago
in order to transport

something of great value
onto Oak Island?

So, when the paved area
was here,

there was a lot of water
right there.

One of the ideas is that
they might have brought boats

over the beach, had them there,
and the paved area

was some kind of staging area
or something like that.

And that other ramp is the ramp
to get up to the upland.

If you don't think
there's anything else

we need to do here,

I think we'll get him
putting it back in place.

IAN:
Yeah. I don't think so.

CRAIG:
Okay.

Okay. Well, thank you.

-CRAIG: Okay, Bill.
-BILLY: All right.
-IAN: See you.

NARRATOR:
While operations continue
on Oak Island...

RICK: Andrea,
pleasure to meet you, sir.

A pleasure to meet you, and
welcome to American University.

NARRATOR:
...meanwhile,
some 4,000 miles to the east,

researcher Emiliano Sacchetti
has arranged

for Rick Lagina and other
members of the team

to meet with Professor
Andrea di Robilant

at the American University
of Rome.

This day is gonna prove
to be most interesting

because it's our belief,
and part of it

is based on
some previous research

about pre-Columbian voyages
to the New World.

Well, I have an interesting tale
to tell you all.

-(soft laughter)
-DOUG: Excellent.

NARRATOR: With nearly 40 years
of experience

as an author and lecturer,

Professor Di Robilant
has written extensively

about pre-15th-century European
visits to the New World.

In the library where
I was doing my own research

was an extraordinary
little booklet

published in 1558 in Venice

about the narrative
of Nicolò and Antonio Zeno,

Venetian sailors
back in the 1390s.

They decided to leave Venice
to sail up to the North Atlantic

and trade with the countries
of Northern Europe.

And so, the two brothers

sail out of Venice,
cross the Mediterranean,

sail up the Atlantic
to the Faroe Islands.

There, they are eventually taken

to the l--
the-the lord chieftain

of the whole area,
who was, uh, Sir Henry Sinclair.

DOUG:
Henry Sinclair

is so interesting to us.

NARRATOR:
Prince Henry Sinclair

was a Scottish nobleman,
military leader and explorer.

However, he is also
believed by some

to have given refuge to
and joined the Knights Templar

after their persecution in
France during the 14th century,

and then helped them move
some of their treasures

to the New World in 1398.

The two brothers,
instead of going back to Venice,

decide to stay
and work for Henry Sinclair.

And Sinclair, uh,
gives them ships,

with which they further
their journey

and travel further north.

During this period of ten years,

they described in great detail
the places they visited.

In 1558,

the grandnephew
of Antonio Zeno decides

to publish all of this material
and to print a map

of their journey
to the North Atlantic.

And I have this, uh, the map.

Uh, I have it right here.

ANDREA: So, the Zeno brothers
sailed further north,

and very, very possibly,
to the coast of Nova Scotia.

-Hmm.

NARRATOR: At the American
University in Rome, Italy,

Professor Andrea di Robilant
has just presented documents

reporting that
in the late 14th century,

Italian explorers
Antonio and Nicolò Zeno

sailed to the New World
with Prince Henry Sinclair,

a Templar knight,
who some believe buried

sacred religious treasures
on Oak Island.

ANDREA:
They certainly mentioned

what is, to me, most obviously,

Newfoundland and Nova Scotia.

Those parts are included
in the Zeno map.

And I have a-a very famous map

from the late,
very late 17th century.

I think I have it here. Yeah.

-And lo and behold,
it says here...
-There it is.

-Yep. Yep.
-...right there in Canada,

"Discovered by Antonio Zeno
in 1390."

So, this, to me, was
extraordinary, because it meant

that here we have
a document which suggests

that the Zeno brothers
had, uh, landed

a-and discovered
this part of North America.

RICK:
It truly is

-irresistible as you lay it out.
-ALEX: Mm-hmm.

-Mm-hmm.
-PETER: That puts a foothold

for the Zeno brothers in Canada,

so they could be associated
with the Oak Island story.

-Yes.
-CORJAN: And then Henry Sinclair

in North America.

RICK:
We've got multiple timelines.

I've always believed
that the work on Oak Island

associated with some sort
of treasure deposition

was incremental.

A plan was devised,
certain stages of it

were implemented
over, perhaps, centuries.

I think we have
to follow the possibility

that Templar treasure
went from France to Scotland,

from Scotland to the New World.

We have a connection here,

let's follow the clues
where they lead.

What we have heard here today
is that maps tell a story.

And that this is
certainly a connection

to a visitation
to the New World long, long ago.

So, thank you for the day.

It's been highly informative
and very, uh, impactful.

I wish you the best of luck.

-RICK: Thank you.
-ALEX/PETER: Thank you.

-DOUG: Thank you very much.
-CORJAN: Thank you so much.

NARRATOR:
While Rick and members
of the team

finish their meeting
in Rome, Italy...

LAIRD:
Hello, y'all. Two visitors.

NARRATOR:
...back on Oak Island...

Holy cow.

-No, I see
what you mean by that.
-Yeah.

This is frickin' impressive.

I've never seen anything
like this

-on the island.
-No.

NARRATOR: ...Dr. Ian Spooner
joins Craig Tester

and other members
of the team on Lot 5

in order to make
his first inspection

of the circular,
stone-covered depression.

I don't know, uh,
circular things are so rare.

In my travels,
circular things like this,

few things that I've seen
are-- you know,

there can be fortifications
that were circular.

And one of the best-known

circular fortifications
are brochs,

are old, ancient Scottish
castles that were circular.

I've also seen things like this
where they have...

some kind of cannon
or f-- you know,

that moves around a circle.

Hmm.

NARRATOR:
The circular feature on Lot 5,

a possibly
ancient fortification?

And perhaps of Scottish origin?

If Dr. Spooner is correct,

could this structure
offer evidence

that the reported voyage
of Prince Henry Sinclair

to Oak Island
in the late 14th century

did, in fact, take place?

I-I mean, to me,
it's really quite impressive.

-CRAIG: It's very interesting.
-(laughter)

I mean, every time
you guys are puzzled

-by something...
-Yeah, it gets us interested.

Yeah, it gets me
very interested.

-Very interested.
-MIRIAM: Why does that happen

-a lot on this island?
-I don't know.

I don't know.

-IAN: Thank you.
-CRAIG: Catch you
later on, then.

-IAN: All right.
-MIRIAM: Yeah.

-LAIRD: See you guys.
-CHARLES: Yeah, see you.

NARRATOR:
The following day...

-EMILIANO: Hi, guys.
-(overlapping greetings)

-GIANLUCA: Buongiorno.
-RICK: Buongiorno.

-Benvenuto a Viterbo.
-Nice to meet you.

Buongiorno.

Gianluca Di Prospero is, um,

Templar investigator,

and he's gonna show us a few
things around Viterbo today.

NARRATOR:
...Rick Lagina
and members of the team

have traveled some 65 miles
northwest of Rome

to the city of Viterbo, Italy.

EMILIANO:
Viterbo was
an important crossroad,

and for 24 years,
Viterbo was the center

of Christianity
in the known world.

NARRATOR: They have arranged to
meet with Gianluca di Prospero,

an author who has spent
more than two decades

researching
the medieval activities

of the Knights Templar
in this region.

What is the Templar connection
with this area?

(Gianluca speaking Italian)

EMILIANO:
Actually, he found

some, uh, interesting symbols
in a church

that is very close to here,
it's called Santa Maria Nuova.

There might be
some Templar connection.

-I'd say let's-let's
take a look.
-Let's see.

Sì.

NARRATOR:
Founded in the eighth century,

Viterbo became
the temporary headquarters

for Pope Alexander IV
and the Catholic Church

during a time
of civil unrest in Rome.

During that period,
the city also served

as a stronghold
for the Templar order.

(speaking Italian)

EMILIANO:
This is Santa Maria Nuova,

a church built in 1080.

As you can see,
it's full of paintings,

carvings and symbolism.

It's hard-hard to believe
this-this-- this

was built in 1080.

-Mm-hmm.
-I think there's a lot
to learn here.

So, let's-let's start
an initial investigation

-and see-see what
we come up with.
-Okay.

-Okay.
-RICK: If you see
anything at all,

-flag everyone else down.
-Okay.

-Great idea.
-Okay.

Let's do that.

RICK:
The church
is an incredible edifice.

It's beautiful.

Churches were,
even though they were public,

they held secrets of their own.

And we need to learn
as much as we can.

DOUG:
What'd you find, Pete?

-I think something
pretty interesting.
-Oh.

-DOUG: Wow.
-NARRATOR: In Viterbo, Italy,

Peter Fornetti has just made

a potentially
important discovery

inside the Santa Maria Nuova,

a medieval church with
historically documented ties

to the Knights Templar.

PETER:
It's unmistakable.

Cross with the four dots.

-Same as the H+O Stone.
-ALEX: Mm-hmm.

(Gianluca speaking Italian)

EMILIANO:
He says that

these four-dots crosses
are marking special places

that Templars
used to be in and-- or around.

ALEX:
Hmm.

(Gianluca speaking Italian)

EMILIANO:
This is also present
in places connected

with the Holy Grail
or the Holy Shroud.

DOUG:
If this four-dot cross

is only found
in Templar-associated locations

or with Templar-associated
articles

that they may have been
safeguarding,

I mean, i-it speaks volumes
for our H+O Stone.

NARRATOR:
In the 1920s,
a massive boulder

featuring a number
of enigmatic carvings

was discovered
by treasure hunters

on the northern shore
of Oak Island.

Suspecting that it marked
the location of buried treasure,

they destroyed it with dynamite
in order to dig beneath it.

Nothing was found
below the massive boulder.

However, is it possible
that a fragment

known as the H+O Stone,

which featured a cross
surrounded by four dots,

represented a key clue
that sacred Templar treasures

are hidden on Oak Island?

If so, could that explain

the high-trace evidence
of gold and other metals

that have been detected
deep in the Money Pit area?

RICK:
Every place we visit...

...it speaks to me

that there's
an ongoing story here.

An ongoing message.

We need to look
backwards in time,

and that's what
we've done today.

And I think we need
to continue to do that.

PETER:
Yep.

Let's go.

RICK:
We have seen
that cross everywhere,

from Portugal to the H+O Stone.

And we know for a fact

that Templars used
that representation,

but it certainly is a direct
connection to Oak Island.

-Rick.
-RICK: Hmm?

ALEX:
Right here.

-Yeah.
-Right there.

Hmm.

"H-I-C."

ALEX:
I think there's an "A" even
on the far side there.

There's an "A" here, yeah.

Mm-hmm.

In his opinion,
this refers to a compass.

And if you take a look closely,
there is also a square.

So, it could be
a Masonic, uh, symbolism.

-ALEX: Mm-hmm.
-Which is weird

in a church like this...

-Yeah.
-...so old and so important

-here in Viterbo.
-RICK: Hmm.

NARRATOR:
A possible Masonic compass

carved in the wall
of a medieval church

with known connections
to the Knights Templar?

Many believe
that the secretive fraternity

known as the Freemasons

evolved from the Templar order
after their dissolution

by the Catholic Church
in the 14th century.

Curiously,
ever since the Money Pit

was discovered in 1795,

Freemasons have been involved

in nearly every single organized
company of treasure hunters

that has tried
to solve the mystery.

Masonic symbols
such as triangles, crosses

and the letter "G,"
representing the divine creator,

have also been found
all across the island.

Is it possible that Alex Lagina

has just found more evidence
that these organizations

are directly connected?

And if so,
does that also explain

what Freemasons have been
trying to find on Oak Island

for more than two centuries?

ALEX:
I just keep thinking
about the H+O Stone.

And let me show you this.

So...

in the church, we saw this.

-Right?
-RICK: Mm-hmm.

What does that mean?

-"Here."
-If you do this...

...you get the H+O Stone.

And this symbol,
we've learned today,

-means Templar-related relic.
-RICK: Mm-hmm.

And what have we found that
the symbol at the end means?

Some have interpreted it
to be gold.

ALEX:
Yeah.

If you put it
all together, I mean,

there's the possibility
that the H+O Stone represents

"Here, Templar gold."

DOUG:
We know that in medieval times,

in Middle Age times,
they really like their ciphers.

They really like
their hidden meaning, so...

-...maybe. Yeah.
-Maybe.

You may have just
filled in the blank.

Or a blank or blanks.

I think it was incredibly
insightful of Alex.

I think he and Peter work
very well together.

I'm very proud of them
as my nephews.

Hopefully this means something.

RICK:
If he's onto something,
that is fantastic.

We all believe
the H+O Stone is important.

The circle and the dot
could be a symbol for gold.

Is it possible that it hints at
or suggests

that there's a religious
relic associated

with the treasure of Oak Island?

Well, at this point,
there's some strong suggestions

that that is indeed the case.

Well, what we did

is we took the eyes
and boots approach

to the information hunt,
which is absolute imperative.

And that's, that's my thought
as we head back to the island.

DOUG:
Appreciate you guys.

-Thank you so much.
-Thank you.

RICK:
Grazie mille.

We owe you a debt of gratitude.

MARTY:
I-I'm excited to go down there.
I really, really am.

It's-it's pretty neat.
I mean, you're doing down

-underground in the Money Pit.
-Yes.

Exactly right, yeah,
and maybe, very close to...

-The treasure.
-...the actual treasure
of the Money Pit.

NARRATOR: It is a historic
moment on Oak Island.

After more than five months
of tireless effort

by representatives
of Dumas Contracting Limited,

the reconstruction
of the 82-foot-deep Garden Shaft

is now complete.

-Okay. Enjoy, guys.
-Thank you very much.

NARRATOR:
In the next week,
the team will begin

a new probe-drilling operation
to look for evidence

of precious metals
just outside of the structure,

as well as a tunnel located
at a depth of some 95 feet

that leads toward the Baby Blob,
or believed treasure zone.

-Are you gonna lead?
-ROGER: Yes.

-MARTY: The real excitement
begins now.
-Yeah.

NARRATOR:
In the meantime,

Marty Lagina is about to make
his first descent

into the structure
in order to inspect it.

MARTY:
I am physically going
underground in the Money Pit,

in a shaft that may, in fact,
lead us to the treasure.

It's pretty exciting
from an emotional standpoint.

-This is a long way down.
-ROGER: Yeah.

MARTY: The main feeling
is a bit of awe

as to the people
who did it 100 years ago,

200 years ago,
maybe 400 years ago.

It's amazing to me
what human beings can do.

All right, the first thing
I want to do is look up.

-Holy crap.
-(Roger chuckles)

MARTY:
When we get to the bottom,
the secondary feeling is,

"Hey, I'm underground
in the Money Pit area.

Wonder what I'm next to."

I just can't help myself.

-I got to take
a look down there.
-Absolutely.

ROGER:
Here, let me help you.

-MARTY: Oh, these just roll off?
-Oh, yeah.

We didn't nail them in yet.

MARTY:
There she is. The ground.

Geez, Roger.
I wonder if we're close.

-(laughs softly)
-I wonder if we're close.

MARTY:
We want to see what
that shaft was near.

It's in the treasure area,
the Baby Blob,

where the scientists tell us

there's anomalous amounts
of metals.

-Okay.
-RODNEY: Do you copy, Marty?

Oh.

Yeah, I copy.

What's your thoughts down there?

It's incredible, okay?
I mean, almost surely,

a tunnel right
underneath us here.

Yeah. And-and what
that thing means,

where it came from,

is it original,
we'd like to know all that.

This is where the treasure hunt
begins in this shaft.

-That's what it's all about.
-You're right.

It begins now.

Okay.

MARTY:
Okay. We're coming up.

NARRATOR:
Despite the fast-approaching
North Atlantic winter,

Rick, Marty and the rest
of the Fellowship

remain undeterred in their quest

to unlock Oak Island's
long-held secrets.

After scouring the island...

and making another profound
journey across the ocean,

they have discovered
more compelling evidence

that something
of historic proportions

may lie buried
deep in the Money Pit.

And now, with the completion
of the Garden Shaft,

they just might have the means
to finally recover it.

Next time on
The Curse of Oak Island...

JACK:
We haven't reached the edge yet.

It's quite a massive structure.

This could fit in
with Zena's map.

This could be the hatch.

GARY:
Come on. Be something good.

Ooh, that's pretty big.

-Wow, that is sweet.
-Whoa.

CHRIS (over video):
Isotopically,
it looks very similar

-to the cross.
-No way.

That's brilliant.

-SCOTT: Oh, wow.
-There's something there.

SCOTT:
It could possibly be

an original depositor tunnel.

MARTY:
You've done did it.

I feel good now.

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